• SONAR
  • Managing Waves Gold Plugins (p.2)
2016/11/27 08:49:31
BassDaddy
My custom layout has a cross reference that I find handy. 1 folder says Manufacturer or Brand, the other FX. Took extra work but I'm glad I did. If I want Gold I use Brand. If I want to look at delays I use FX.
2016/11/27 10:28:31
ZincTrumpet
Thanks Chuck, I shoulda checked the date on that CakeTV vid  Thanks for the more recent ones.
 
I like that idea BassDaddy, thanks.
 
ZT
2016/11/28 08:38:18
celopadua
Hope this helps has some other plug-ins, but you can just remove them.
Please note I only sorted the VST3's, as I don't use VST2's.
 
https://drive.google.com/...nQsX8VTU2dycFdKZ05TeDg
2016/11/28 08:57:36
dcumpian
RSMCGUITAR
dcumpian
I just wish we could create sub-menus for better grouping, but alas, you just have to name your folders appropriately and split them if your menu is longer than you would like.


You can easily add sub-folders. I do it with mine.




Well crap, never tried a right-click there, lol...thanks for learnin' me
 
Dan
2016/11/28 13:55:34
Dave76
One thing you can do is hide all of the Mono-To-Stereo versions of the plug-ins as these don't work properly in SONAR anyway.  I seem to recall that they basically just lock the track down to mono and then only output one channel.  You can verify this using any of the plugins like H-Delay or SuperTap and noting that the audio is all kinds of messed up when you pan out the delay taps.  To do mono-to-stereo in SONAR, you use enable stereo interleave on the track and then insert the Stereo versions of the Waves plug-ins.  
 
Most of the Mono versions can also be hidden as the processing will be identical using the Stereo version on mono tracks assuming the two channels are processed independently.  I'd guess that is the case for anything in Gold other than maybe the V-series.  A while ago, I actually did comparisons for my favorite plug-ins where I generated wave files using both versions for mono audio and the output was bit exact other than for some of the vintage style plug-ins that insert noise and maybe do some other cross-channel processing (and may also be functionally equivalent but just different due to the randomness of the noise).  I believe the Mono versions are holdovers from back in the 90s when Waves was trying to squeeze out every tiny bit of CPU and RAM available.  On modern systems, the difference is not something you will ever notice and not worth the hassle of having the extra plug-ins around and the hassle of converting over to stereo at a later date (i.e. delete the Mono plug-in, add the Stereo, and then recreate your settings).  
 
2016/11/28 14:31:56
ZincTrumpet
Thanks Celopadua, I will give it a shot (hopefully save me some effort ;)
 
Thanks also Dave76, that should save a lot of menu space! Also answers a few questions regarding mono vs stereo track processing.
 
Cheers
ZT 
2016/11/29 08:33:11
ZincTrumpet
That worked fine thanks Celopadua :) I now a shiny new layout that works great.
 
Thanks again for all the input.
 
ZT
2016/11/30 22:37:42
celopadua
I'm glad I could help :)
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